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title as yet to be determined, but perhaps FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION or ONE GRUMPY GEEK or something of that ilk --
-- because, right, turns out I actually am (six months in) getting on with (my... adapted version of) Ryder Carroll's Bullet Journal® system (can I make the formatting more sarcastic, do we think?) really pretty well, but, good grief, every time I go "hmm this way I'm doing things isn't quite working..." or "I wonder how else I could be using this...?" or whatever, an internet search turns up 9238437 different blog posts all reproducing the same 42 photos lifted from Instagram in slightly different orders, along with copy that breathlessly talks about how Cute or Decorative or Whatever this specific layout is...
... frequently entirely missing how the functions differ if things, you know, look superficially similar.
And, yes, I am very much enjoying using the entire thing to give myself permission to play around with handwriting and tiny art! But I am also willing to argue that that's function disguised as form, and in any case I still kind of want a resource that actually collects ideas organised by function instead of colour or theme or aesthetic theory of scrapbooking, none of which are bad but also none of which are what I want.
Because the solution to this problem is definitely another dedicated blog.
-- because, right, turns out I actually am (six months in) getting on with (my... adapted version of) Ryder Carroll's Bullet Journal
... frequently entirely missing how the functions differ if things, you know, look superficially similar.
And, yes, I am very much enjoying using the entire thing to give myself permission to play around with handwriting and tiny art! But I am also willing to argue that that's function disguised as form, and in any case I still kind of want a resource that actually collects ideas organised by function instead of colour or theme or aesthetic theory of scrapbooking, none of which are bad but also none of which are what I want.
Because the solution to this problem is definitely another dedicated blog.